August 14, 2015
- US has "credible information" ISIS used chemical weapons on Kurdish forces in Iraq.
- Over the past year, ISIS has developed a horrific, systematic market of sex slavery.
- On the anniversary of Japan's WWII surrender, Abe expresses remorse, but—significantly—doesn't apologize.
- Explained: Why Japan's foreign relations have been hanging on what Abe might say.
- The three Marines who lowered the US flag in Havana in 1961 will raise it again today.
- Police officers are more likely to be killed in states with the highest rates of gun ownership.
- "In most jurisdictions, bail is the grease that keeps the gears of the overburdened system turning."
- Justice Dept. says banning homeless people from sleeping outside is unconstitutional.
- Across the US, renting has never been more expensive.
- The true cost of Airbnb: Resident-landlords abandon their neighborhoods, and there goes the local color.
- "Godzilla El Niño" headed for California could be one of the strongest on record.
- Nonprofit says China's air pollution kills 4,000 people a day.
- Sesame Street is moving to HBO.
- How to get to the real Sesame Street.
- Search Paul Ford's "Database of the Dead"—where names never die, just their bodies.
- Facebook cans intern who exposed Messenger's stalking habits.
- Trump's tactics haven't changed since Spy magazine took him to the woodshed 25 years ago.